Defense Civilian service 2024 with new record for days of service
Members of the civilian service completed a new record number of days of service in 2024. The increase compared to the previous year was 3.5 percent to almost 1.9 million days of service. 6799 people were newly registered for civilian service.
25.03.2025, 10:47
SDA
New registrations thus increased by 0.7 percent, as announced by the Federal Office for Civilian Service (Zivi) on Tuesday. The number of organizations providing civilian service fell by 2.9 percent to 4361, meaning that the civilian service had almost 800 fewer places, namely 15,918. According to the Civilian Service, however, this is sufficient. The neutrality of the labor market has been maintained.
33.7 percent of newly admitted civilian service members submitted their application after completing recruit school. 55.7% of applications were submitted before joining the army and 10.6% during recruit school.
The number of days of service had already reached a record level in 2023. In 2024, 51.6% of civilian service days were spent in social services, 16.6% in schools, 14.8% in healthcare institutions and 9.7% in environmental protection and nature conservation.
The Federal Council wants to reduce admissions to civilian service. In particular, it considers admissions after completing recruit school to be problematic, as specialists and managers are leaving. An amendment to the Civilian Service Act is intended to comply with the constitutional provision that there is no freedom of choice between military and alternative civilian service.
